Restoring Hope Ministries plans a daytime hub in Green Bay where peer recovery support and case management connect people with counseling, wellness, learning, and community.
Plan dated November 11, 2026 · 26 pages · Approx. 9.3 MB · Opens in a new tab
In development
The Community Center is planned, and no opening date or completed property purchase is being announced. It will provide daytime services with no overnight beds. Services will expand as funding, staffing, agreements, and required approvals are in place.
Distinct future concepts
Recovery housing and peer respite are separate.
These concepts are separate from the planned daytime Community Center. Neither option is open, and no available residence or respite stay is being offered.
Recovery housing
A proposed longer-term home environment supporting recovery through community, practical routines, peer connection, and clear house expectations. Housing would require separate decisions, property arrangements, staffing, funding, and approvals.
Supportive peer respite
A separate proposed short-term, voluntary, nonclinical option for rest, peer conversation, wellness planning, and help identifying community resources. It would not provide detoxification, psychotherapy, medication management, or emergency psychiatric treatment. Its location, operating model, staffing, funding, and opening date have not been confirmed.
One connected campus
Three buildings. A shared purpose.
The plan proposes three connected buildings on six parcels behind RHM’s current offices at 529 S. Jefferson Street. Final layouts depend on property review and approvals.
01
Welcome & peer recovery
A welcoming front door, peer conversations, intake and case management, a community living room, and a teaching kitchen.
02
Clinical & wellness
Private spaces planned for counseling, family support, optional neurofeedback, wellness check-ins, and quiet reflection.
03
Learning & workforce
Classrooms, supervised learning, workforce and student workstations, music and expression, and veterans and peer connection.
Connection at every level.
The plan uses Bronfenbrenner’s ecological model to connect support for the person with family, neighborhood, services, and the wider community. Partners help turn a referral into a practical next step.
Dignity, choice, and belonging
People of all faiths and none are welcome. Spiritual support is clearly identified and voluntary. Counseling, peer support, and wellness services have distinct roles and are matched to each person’s choices and goals.
A phased path forward
First: the daytime Community Center.
Establish the campus and demonstrate sustainable operations, paid billing, signed contracts, and a funded reserve.
Next: Hope120 recovery homes.
Consider housing through separate board decisions, property arrangements, staffing, funding, and approvals after the Center is stable.
Later: a treatment center.
Explore a subsequent treatment phase within the plan’s 5–7 year horizon, subject to its own readiness milestones and approvals.
Help shape what comes next
The November 11 plan proposes a $600,000 property purchase and seeks $1.5 million in financing for acquisition, improvements, and a transition period. These are planning figures, not an announcement of secured financing. Program and partner commitments will be confirmed individually.
Care That Is Measured — Because People Are What Matter
Restoring Hope Ministries tracks the well-being of every participant in our clinical and faith-based services using empirically validated screeners, clinical interviews, behavioral analysis, and self-report — so we can honestly see whether the people we serve are getting better.
This rigor reflects the training of our founder, Dr. Jeffrey Gross, who earned an M.S. in Clinical Psychology from the Wisconsin School of Professional Psychology and is continuing his Psy.D. studies in Clinical Psychology, with completion anticipated in 2028. His Th.D. in Theology and Ph.D. in Christian Counseling complement that clinical education with theological preparation for Christ-centered soul care.
At Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin, he served as a Student Psychologist and later Chief Student Psychologist, supporting veterans and first responders with traumatic brain injuries through the BRAVE program. His work included assessment, individualized treatment planning, multidisciplinary rehabilitation, psychoeducational and process-oriented groups, and peer supervision. His experience also includes supervised psychological testing of clergy at Milwaukee Psychotherapy Collaborative, recovery-focused group development at The Manor by Windrose, and case management and peer-support supervision at Biehl Bridges to Recovery.
Continuing education in assessment, trauma, neurobehavioral conditions, supervision, ethics, and risk management further informs this approach. Together, these experiences help shape RHM’s commitment to careful assessment, responsible documentation, collaborative care, and attention to each person’s spiritual, relational, emotional, and practical needs. His clinical psychology doctorate remains in progress; this background does not replace the qualifications or licensure required for regulated clinical services.